Brett Myers

Never underestimate Mike Ilitch's appetite for a championship. While the Tigers loved what they got from Anibal Sanchez a year ago, they didn't have $80 million budgeted to keep him off the free-agent market. But that's what Dave Dombrowski persuaded Ilitch to pay after the Cubs' Theo Epstein went to Miami to get Sanchez signed in December. Epstein may have surprised Dombrowski by putting a five-year deal on the table when the Tigers' best offer had been a reported $48 million over four years. But Sanchez and his agents gave the Tigers a last chance to keep him, and the deal was done the next day. Dombrowski probably felt he had enough pitching to win the...

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